Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel

"The Library of Babel" is arguably Jorge Luis Borges'' best known story--memorialized along with Borges on an Argentine postage stamp. Now, in The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges'' Library of Babel, William Goldbloom Bloch takes readers on a fascinating tour of the mathematical ideas hidden within one of the classic works of modern literature. Written in the vein of Douglas R. Hofstadter''s Pu...